The Term "Investment" Used in the Calculation of Accounting Performance

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Essay

The term "investment" used in the calculation of accounting performance measures can vary from company to company.By using financial statement terminology describe four different ways that categories of accounts are used to determine the amount of investment.

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Definitions:

Resistant Populations

Groups of organisms that have developed the ability to withstand environmental pressures, such as chemicals or diseases, that would normally be harmful.

Directional Selection

A type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over other phenotypes, causing the allele frequency to shift over time in the direction of that phenotype.

Selection Differential

A measure of the difference between the mean phenotype of the selected parents and the mean phenotype of the general population.

Narrow Sense Heritability

A measure of how much of the variance in a trait among individuals in a population is due to additive genetic factors.